ferryboat
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Beset by financial hardship, in part because of a devastating injury in a ferryboat accident, Meucci was unable to afford the $10 fee to renew his caveat, which as a result expired.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Mr. Erdogan, 70, grew up in Istanbul, where his father worked as a ferryboat captain.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
The ferryboat Julia B., derisively dubbed the “flagship” of the “Arizona Navy” by a Times war correspondent assigned to cover the skirmish, promptly ran aground on a sandbar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
They also lent their manpower to the Deception Pass Bridge, which opened in 1935 over the protests of Berte Olson, Puget Sound’s first female ferryboat captain, who held rights to the route.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
From there, we would ride the ferryboat over to San Francisco.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
The commission also oversees movers, brokers, ferryboats and wastewater.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
The funding measure would spend billions on highways projects and maintenance, transit access, removing fish barriers, building new ferryboats and more.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
Most of them are teenage boys trying to sneak onto ferryboats to the mainland, where they hope to join family members or create a case for family reunification.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2018
When Northam was born in 1959, the area was connected to the rest of Virginia only by ferryboats; the 20-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel linked the region to Norfolk in 1964.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2017
The ferryboats crossed the wide river without mishap, and the party from Boston stepped out onto the shore at Wethersfield.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
